Things to Remember About the Mets, the Twins, and the 28 Other Owners

Thanks for that 7:00 am pep talk on a stupid, freezing cold Friday morning.  I needed that.  ??

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No, they became rich by being born into obscene wealth.

Add in a winner-take-all economic and political system that concentrates wealth with people who already have it.

Perhaps your best work to date.

Cohen isn't even a particularly rich billionaire. He's #134 on the Forbes list. He's going to spend a bunch of money and at the end of it all his net worth is going to grow faster than he can spend the money on the Mets payroll.

1 hour ago, DJL44 said:

Add in a winner-take-all economic and political system that concentrates wealth with people who already have it.

Well, except for the people that weren't born into wealth and actually worked hard to make themselves wealthy.  Your narrative creates a sense of entitlement and people looking for handouts. There's no "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality anymore. 

53 minutes ago, dex8425 said:

Well, except for the people that weren't born into wealth and actually worked hard to make themselves wealthy.  Your narrative creates a sense of entitlement and people looking for handouts. There's no "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality anymore. 

Can't tell if this is sarcasm because of the internet. Did you realize picking yourself up off by your own bootstraps is impossible and the phrase was intended as a sarcastic rejoinder? Nobody is a billionaire solely by "hard work".

You all are a bunch of wimps... -11 degrees with -35 degree windchill?   Come talk to me when it is -30/-50.  I didn't even zip up my coat...

There is a reason rich people are rich.  It doesn't happen by throwing money out the window.  That is why it is such big deal when one decides to make it rain. 

1 hour ago, dex8425 said:

Well, except for the people that weren't born into wealth and actually worked hard to make themselves wealthy.  Your narrative creates a sense of entitlement and people looking for handouts. There's no "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality anymore. 

Actually, That dram died sometime in the very early 1970's. You dont get mega rich by pulling at your bootstraps anymore. 

An argument could be made you never actually could and that was just a carrot on a stick illusion even half a century ago created by the mega rich to get the poor to work harder for them in their factories. 

I believe owning sports teams is a hobby for the ultra rich - it is the bauble they carry around to their exclusive meetings and everyone has been happy to polish their "I own buttons" for each power lunch.  But someone forgot to tell Cohen that it is not about winning.  They did not tell him that sharing the wealth was a bad idea.  Just think if those rich guys would say I have enough, how about if I give all my employees a real raise that will cut my annual millions (billions) down a little?  But the money goes to the employees that give them bragging rights.  Until now it was just the "I own Mike Trout" syndrome - now someone has caught the Steinbrenner bug and Cohen is actually laughing at the pittance he is paying.

Don't look at the total package - look at the annual salaries, by the time Correa gets $300,000 Cohen will have a few more billions.  And the poor Pohlads will be spinning their small marker LP as long as they can.  

Loved, loved, loved it.

Will spend my $5 game price in Arizona for two months, watching Div I ball and women's softball tourneys and then hopping in car and watching the best HS ball in the state for...free. 

See, there is a benny to being as old as Methuselah.

On 12/23/2022 at 10:19 AM, bustedstuff88 said:

Actually, That dram died sometime in the very early 1970's. You dont get mega rich by pulling at your bootstraps anymore. 

 

An argument could be made you never actually could and that was just a carrot on a stick illusion even half a century ago created by the mega rich to get the poor to work harder for them in their factories. 

Most rich people I know didn't/don't have rich parents or come from family money. All of them are smart and driven though!